3:09 p.m.
Announcing today's build:
http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/20090305/
Highlights:
* X and GDM work again
* Should boot successfully from SD, USB or NAND
* The .img is 116MB smaller than yesterday's, thanks to Sebastian
* The bootable.gz image fits on 2GB USB keys/SD cards again
I saw something odd when booting this image -- the first GDM launch
crashed, then it relaunched itself, and didn't crash after that; I
reported this to the GDM maintainer. Also, the ability to choose
between Sugar and GNOME in GDM has disappeared, but will be back in
tomorrow's build.
- Chris.
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Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
7:23 a.m.
Peter Robinson schrieb:
> * X and GDM work again
> * Should boot successfully from SD, USB or NAND
Yay. Well done!
> * The .img is 116MB smaller than yesterday's, thanks to Sebastian
Dare I ask what contributed to the shrinkage? Was there some dep
issues fixed or are there some package forks?
Peter
Sure... :)
Well, we figured that there was some stuff getting pulled in, even
though there was almost no need to. So we're now not fetching all the
KDE libs anymore, for example. In fact it was more consideration, what
could be replaced how and what could be completely dropped. For now, we
didn't fork any stuff; though, I'd really like to get this abiword thing
sorted out - there's not really a need for all the printing stuff on the XO.
--Sebastian
8:17 a.m.
>> * X and GDM work again
>> * Should boot successfully from SD, USB or NAND
>
> Yay. Well done!
>
>> * The .img is 116MB smaller than yesterday's, thanks to Sebastian
>
> Dare I ask what contributed to the shrinkage? Was there some dep
> issues fixed or are there some package forks?
>
> Peter
Sure... :)
Well, we figured that there was some stuff getting pulled in, even though
there was almost no need to. So we're now not fetching all the KDE libs
anymore, for example. In fact it was more consideration, what could be
replaced how and what could be completely dropped. For now, we didn't fork
any stuff; though, I'd really like to get this abiword thing sorted out -
there's not really a need for all the printing stuff on the XO.
I'm hoping to get an image running on my XO on the weekend as well as
something running in a VM (earier to work on things like dep testing
on my real laptop rather than carrying two around) and start to look
closely at all the deps etc. The abiword bit should be somewhat
massively improved with 2.7/2.8 as it should drop a whole lot of old
deps and move to GtkPrint api which would mean there wouldn't be any
extra deps for printing. Unfortunately I don't think there will be
anything in the F11 timeframe so that will prob be a F12 one.
Interesting about the kde deps though :-D
Peter
4:44 p.m.
Hi,
I saw something odd when booting this image -- the first GDM launch
crashed, then it relaunched itself, and didn't crash after that; I
reported this to the GDM maintainer. Also, the ability to choose
between Sugar and GNOME in GDM has disappeared, but will be back in
tomorrow's build.
These are both fixed in:
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/gdm/2.25.2/12.fc11/i586/gdm-2....
Some decisions coming up soon:
* should we use an overlay for /home? how big?
* should we partition the NAND and swap to it?
* maybe, at least for NAND, we should be using an installed image rather
than a live image?
* should the bootable.gz include a swap partition?
- Chris.
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Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
7:39 a.m.
New subject: decisions (was Re: 20090305 daily build )
chris wrote:
Some decisions coming up soon:
* should we use an overlay for /home? how big?
can you describe what this means?
* should we partition the NAND and swap to it?
i think i'm with mikus on this: can we set things up so that
a swap partition on SD will be used if discovered? we've talked
about compcache forever -- perhaps we could make it easy to enable
that, as well? does fedora have compcache support?
* maybe, at least for NAND, we should be using an installed image
rather
than a live image?
given the performance hit we saw with the live SD images last
fall, i'd have to make that an emphatic yes.
paul
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